Trump is charged with 34 Class E felony counts, which are punishable by imprisonment for more than one year. If the former ...
Experience shows that juries take seriously their duty to set aside their biases and decide where the truth lies.
Tech companies have taken important steps recently to help protect elections from AI, but more needs to be done to safeguard ...
As conservative lawyers and judges have distorted the past to support their originalist arguments, historians are making an ...
Thanks to loopholes and lax enforcement, former president Trump is using campaign funds to pay almost all of his legal bills.
The for-profit bail bond industry is an overlooked but significant factor in pushback against attempts to reform or end the cash bail system.
Many small donors give in patterns indistinguishable from those of other classes of donors. Wealthy donors have a much ...
The move mirrors efforts in other states to thwart ballot initiatives. Since Dobbs, however, opponents of reproductive rights have maneuvered to tie voters’ hands on the subject. Arizona has emerged ...
On December 15, 2020, the Brennan Center for Justice and Data for Black Lives (D4BL) submitted a public records request to the Washington, DC, Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) for information on ...
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A new Brennan Center survey of local election officials reveals that the vast majority have taken steps since 2020 to protect voters, election workers, and election infrastructure from threats and ...
A lawsuit forced the Metropolitan Police Department to reveal how it uses social media surveillance tools to track First Amendment–protected activity. Internal documents obtained through a Freedom of ...